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Marriage Vows

Marriage vows are binding promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony. Marriage customs have developed over history and keep changing as human society develops. In earlier times and in most cultures the consent of the partners has not had the importance now attached to it, at least in Western societies and in those they have influenced.

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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or vows:

    “But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
    How the youthful Harlots curse
    Blasts the new-born Infants tear
    And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “I pray you do not fall in love with me,
    For I am falser than vows made in wine.
    Besides, I like you not.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)